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Culture In Eve Bunting Farah's One Green Apple
In life being daring can be hard, but if you are daring it can make you more confident and give you more opportunities. In the story “One Green Apple”, by Eve Bunting Farah wears her own culture’s clothing, even though everyone else is wearing t-shirts and pants. Farah is daring because even though she came from a different country, she still wears her culture’s clothes, at the end of the story Farah finally says the word “Apple” out loud, even though she can't speak English she comes to school.

Even though she came from a different country, she still wears the clothes she wore in her country. In this part, since Farah’s religion is different, she dresses differently even though all the other kids dress in pants and shirts. She doesn’t care
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Farah doesn't care if people giver her cruel smiles or look at her coldly because it is who she is. She wears it even though all the other girls are dressed in American clothes and looks different from what her culture’s clothes look like. Farah never feels that she has to go change right away just because the other kids are dressed completely opposite. Farah is a girl who will never judge other people because she is was and still will be different too. She is so brave that she can come to school dressed fully, like she does in her culture. In the text Farah says, “I have not seen anyone else wear a dupatta.” This shows that she is fearless because she hasn’t seen anyone else wear a dupatta and she still is wearing her dupatta. Lastly, this shows she is daring because while everyone else is wearing American clothes, she is not ashamed of wearing her culture’s clothes. I think that it is important to be daring because you are then defined as unique and you will never be the same as all the other people out in the world. I think that being like Farah can affect you and the other people out there in the world in a good way. I also think that I would never get the courage to go in the class and dress

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